For the past 40-plus years, the Downey, California-born “Weird Al” Yankovic has been bringing laughter to music listeners through his signature parody songs and polka medleys. From Michael Jackson ...

There’s something inherently joyful about polka dots—a welcome antidote to the minimalism that has dominated in recent years. Still, for those who lean toward a more understated aesthetic, there’s a ...

A new generation of kids on Prince Edward Island will get a chance to peep through the Polka Dot Door this summer. The Confederation Centre of the Arts is creating a new family musical based on the ...

NANTICOKE — John “Stanky” Stankovic, the legendary Northeast Pennsylvania polka king who entertained millions of people from around the world for decades, died on Christmas Day. He was 89. Stankovic, ...

We may love them now, but polka dots used to have a serious image problem. Before the Industrial Revolution brought about machines that could produce the pattern in a symmetrical and uniform way, any ...

Chef Marcus from Akron’s Pierogi Lady grills sausage with Jake, the band performs at a backyard party and the Rainbow Girls play a familiar cover from their back porch. The World According to Polka is ...

The polka dot may be a ubiquitous feature of dresses, bikinis, and twee collegiate bedspreads in the modern era, but as patterns go, it hasn’t been around for that long. The eye-popping pattern gets ...

Kara Jillian Brown is the senior beauty editor of InStyle. She began her career at Well+Good, where she spent five years evolving from editorial intern to news writer to beauty writer. She earned a ...